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Blow Up Your Video (Dlx)

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Artist: AC/DC
Publisher: Sony
Release Date: July 2003
UPC: 696998021228
List Price: ~~$9.99~~

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Summary:
Digitally remastered European vinyl LP pressing of this 1988 release from the Australian Hard Rockers, reissued to coincide with their 2008 studio release and world tour. 10 tracks. Sony/BMG.

Tracks:
Heatseeker
That's the Way I Wanna Rock & Roll
Mean Streak
Go Zone
Kissin' Dynamite
Nick of Time
Some Sin for Nuthin'
Ruff Stuff
Two's Up
This Means War

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Average Customer Rating:

Hard album to like

Customer Rating:

Strange departure in a string of declining fortunes for the Australian rockers. At least Johnson's voice is in better form than either their previous (Fly on the Wall) or latter (Razor's Edge), and this is as good as he would sound until turn of the century. But bringing back old producers Vanda & Young did nothing to reverse the sinking trend, if anything just exposed the tired blues rock riffs by way of thin production. The lyrics try a little harder than on FOTW, but that's never the point when listening to AC/DC. "Heatseeker" and "That's the Way I Wanna Rock N Roll" are the obvious attempts to break radio (or video), neither having the power or hook to push that threshold open. The band could benefit from some of the witty sleeze/sly word play Scott used to employ in his lyrics. "Meanstreak," "Go Zone," and "Ruff Stuff" all being bland, by the numbers songs with little personality, no spark. This is dead similar to the writer's block headed issues Ram It Down by Judas Priest was experiencing the same year. Both bands looking to stay relevant in a changing rock environment but hitting a brick wall in the process. Fortunately, things would improve, at least a little, with the turn of the 90's.

Severly underrated Aca Daca right here. 4 1/2 stars.

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I just listened to this lost AC/DC album today out of the blue, really I had forgotten just how good these songs sound now. It's been about a 8-9 year period since I last listened to AC/DC's 88' spinner "Blow Up Your Video". Man, what a trip and what fun. I don't know why but it always found it's way into my stereo when I first got it before falling to the wayside amongst other competing CD's. People argue that this album sounded horribly dated but to me it has aged well and is just ear candy.

It's been fairly bashed by many AC/DC fans along with Fly On The Wall (hell, the whole post Back In Black era) as their worst effort. Complaints of lackluster songs, a "boxed" sounding production, too 80's sounding for AC/DC, poor mixing, $ hitty lyrics, Brian Johnson's ailing vocals, ect abound by the bucket load when people mention 80s and AC/DC in the same sentence. I don't care. Blow Up Your Video was great fun. I don't understand why this album got panned when it came out? I thought that this had some of the band's strongest and most criminally neglected songs. I mean, who can't be addicted to songs like "Mean streak" or "Kissin' Dynamite"? What about the classic "That's the way I Wanna Rock 'n' Roll"? "Go Zone"? Or my personal favorite "Two's Up". But of course it's the weakest song on the album that gets the video (Heat seeker, which I honestly don't care for) and the only number from BUYV that has been played live, go figure. I have yet to see(ahem, hear) them play ANYTHING else found here. Angus and Malcolm brothers Young really stepped it up and churned out some killer @ssed riffs on this one. You can tell they boys wanted to go "back to basics" by doing more blues based songs and getting big brother George back behind the knobs.The production does sound dated but it's solid although Brian's voice does have this weird reverb effect...

While it's not in the same realm as AC/DC's glory days, Blow Up Your Video is still packs a powerful jolt, especially since they were way past their prime here. The Back In Black fan core babies can trash this all they want, I will be rocking out to this lost AC/DC gem on road trips. Just because it failed on a commercial level doesn't mean you can't get serious volts to this beast. Defiantly a recommended buy and breath of fresh air if your sick of their FM RaDio HiTz.

1988: AC/DC on CD.	Customer Rating:
This was an awesome record, with some solid material and playing on it through out, plus a couple of hits as well. Not the original drummer for the band, but you could hardly notice.

5 stars for the 2003 sony remaster	Customer Rating:
this is another one of those cd's that came out right as everything was going digital. it sounded very stale upon inital release. of the entire acdc catalogue this cd was helped the most with remastering. sounding crisp and alive.

Play That Funky Music Aussie Boy

Customer Rating:

I came to AC/ DC as a listener fairly late--to me they were little else but a down under variation of Aerosmith. Just another headbanger outfit. But I was always a Neil Young fan, and I noticed on his album "Mirror Ball" that guest backup band Pearl Jam came across a lot like an old favorite--Grand Funk Railroad. It occurred to me that Young's frequent collaboration with Crazy Horse might have brought that out of Pearl Jam. Then I heard that leader Eddie Vedder cited GFR as an early influence. I thought back on AC/ DC material I'd heard and realized that there was a lot about the band that resembled another old favorite: Mountain. So I started building a collection of their stuff. And it's not like they're one-dimensional like I'd dismissed them as being before. This album has a track "Meanstreak" that has them sounding like the rhythm section of Parliament/ Funkadelic. I had it in my MP3 player during my exercise walk this morning and found myself mentally filling in the horns. And I reflected on the fact that I'd jumped on the latest release "Black Ice" right when it came out at WalMart. From a band that used to grate on me. I guess a listener has to learn how to listen just like the artists he's listening to have to learn how to play.